One good thing that's happened on my journey so far is that the foods that make me feel bad have changed. The foods that I used to eat every day are now the ones that are indulgences, and the foods that used to be indulgences are essentially nonexistent. To use a sports analogy, you keep adding better players to the depth chart and eventually your starters are backups and your backups are off the team completely.
Yesterday I spent the whole day (all three meals, and snacks) at a men's retreat in Buffalo Mills, PA. All of the food was literally set in front of me and I didn't have a choice of menu options. I tried to keep my proportions in check, and I think I did pretty well. But at the end of the day I felt like, "Man, I need to make sure I have a really good day tomorrow because today was really bad." In actuality, I ate a pretty normal, balanced diet yesterday, and I ate less than most of the other men. The fact that I still feel bad about that speaks volumes to me. When a "normal" eating day makes you feel bad, I think you're on the right track.
Now, obviously there is a danger to take this too far, so I understand if red flags went up for you when you read the last sentence. I realize that it would be easy to get locked into this and go overboard, but I'm not at that point yet. I am just at a point of recognition of good habits, and any time you feel bad about breakfast potatoes the way you used to feel bad about Double Quarter Pounders, that's a positive thing and a conversion I'll take.
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